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- <h2>Selection Tools</h2>
- <p>There are four selection tools available. This page will discuss the
- first three that are listed below:</p>
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- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="Images/SelectionTools.png"><br>
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- <li>Rectangle Select</li>
- <li>Lasso Select</li>
- <li>Ellipse Select</li>
- <li><a href="MagicWand.html">Magic Wand</a></li>
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- <p>These tools are the primary methods for selecting an area of the image
- for modification, deletion, copying, or cropping. The basic use of these
- tools is simple, and is similar to the methods used for drawing shapes with
- the Shape Tools.</p>
- <p>Simply draw a selection by using the left mouse button and dragging the
- mouse around until the shape is how you want it. To remove the selection you
- may either single-click anywhere while a selection tool is active, or you
- may use the <a href="EditMenu.html#deselect">Edit </a> <a href="EditMenu.html#PasteInToNewLayer">
- <font face="Times New Roman">→</font></a><a href="EditMenu.html#deselect">
- Deselect</a> menu item (also available in the <a href="Toolbar.html">Toolbar</a>).</p>
- <p>When a selection is active on the image, a dashed outline will be drawn
- to indicate what area is selected. If one of the selection tools is active,
- there will also be a blue highlight applied to the selected area. When you
- switch to another tool, the blue highlight will be removed so that you may
- get better color accuracy.</p>
- <p>Also, all drawing is confined to the area you have selected. This
- includes <a href="EffectsMenu.html">effects</a> and <a href="AdjustmentsMenu.html">
- adjustments</a>. This can be very useful if you want to confine your drawing
- to a specific area of the image.</p>
- <p>These tools also allow you to alter a selection in one of three different
- combination modes: subtraction, addition, and inversion. These modes are
- also known as exclusion, union, and exclusive-or ("xor"). For a quick
- reference to these commands, see
- <a href="KeyboardMouseCommands.html">Keyboard & Mouse Commands</a>. Also,
- selections may be moved, resized, and rotated: see
- <a href="MoveTools.html">Move Tools</a> for more information.</p>
- <p>In order to create a new selection, or to replace the currently active
- selection, just draw with the left mouse button. The behavior will be
- similar to the shape tools. You may hold down the Shift key while using the
- Rectangle Select or Ellipse Select tools to constrain the shape to be a
- square or a circle, respectively. The following circle selection was made
- using the Ellipse Selection tool:</p>
- <ul>
- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="../images/CircleSelection.png" width="140" height="140"></li>
- </ul>
- <p>To add on to an existing selection, simply hold down the Ctrl key while
- drawing a selection. This allows you to easily select two areas of the image
- that are not connected to each other, or extend a selection to adjacent
- areas. The following selection was made by drawing a circle selection using
- the Ellipse Select tool, followed by drawing a square using the Rectangle
- Select tool while holding down the Ctrl key:</p>
- <ul>
- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="../images/CircleSquareSelection.png" width="250" height="141"></li>
- </ul>
- <p>To remove portions from an existing selection, use the right mouse button
- instead of the left mouse button when you draw the selection. This lets you
- carve out parts of the selection that you are not interested in. This lets
- you easily do selections like the following, which was accomplished by
- drawing one circle with the Ellipse Select tool, and then drawing another
- circle inside of it while holding down the right mouse button:</p>
- <ul>
- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="../images/ConcentricCircleSelection.png" width="150" height="147"></li>
- </ul>
- <p>The third selection combination mode is that of inversion and is possibly
- by holding down Ctrl while using the right mouse button (instead of the left
- mouse button) while drawing part of a selection. This will causes active
- areas of the selection to become inactive, and vice versa. This allows you
- to create selections like the following, made using the Ellipse Select and
- Rectangle Select tools:</p>
- <ul>
- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="../images/XorSelection.png" width="170" height="164"></li>
- </ul>
- <p>In the following 3-part example, a picture was taken in Las Vegas, and
- then the tall building on the left was selected using the Rectangle Select
- tool:</p>
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- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="Images/RectangleSelect.jpg"></li>
- </ul>
- <p>In the next image, the flag on the right of the image was added to the
- selection by holding down the Ctrl key while using the Rectangle Select
- tool:</p>
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- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="Images/ComboSelect.jpg"></li>
- </ul>
- <p>In the last image of this example, parts of the selection were removed in
- order to confine the selection to just the building and flag. This was done
- by using the Lasso Select tool and using the right mouse button to carve out
- selection areas:</p>
- <ul>
- <li class="nobullet">
- <img border="0" src="Images/ComboSelect2.jpg"></p></li>
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- <font color="#808080" size="1">Copyright <font face="Times New Roman">© 2007 </font>
- Rick Brewster, Tom Jackson, and past contributors. Portions Copyright
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